Sterilization

After successfully donning sterile gloves you will be sure to maintain their sterility by keeping your hands above your...

• elbows
• chin
• waist
• knees

Which hand should the glove go on first?

• Non-dominant
• Either 
• Dominant

You are pouring sterile saline into a sterile basin over a sterile field and accidentally splash a scant amount onto the sterile drape, what is your next step?

• Wipe it up with sterile gauze
• Start over with new sterile field
• Nothing, it is just a small amount and it is sterile saline so the field is not contaminated

How far above the sterile field must you be to drop an item such as sterile gauze into the sterile field in order to maintain sterility?

• 6 inches

• 3 inches

• 12 inches

• 9 inches

__ is a set of specific practices and procedures performed t make equipment and areas free from all microorganisms and to maintain that sterility.

• sterile technique

• clean

• asepsis

• surgical asepsis

a sterile object becomes non-sterile when touched by a non-sterile object.

• true

• false

Sterile fields must always be kept in sight to be considered sterile.

• true

• false

_______-inch border of sterile field is considered contaminated

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

way to add small things like gauze onto sterile field 

• drop technique
• mitten technique
• forcep technique

way to add large/bulky things like bowls onto sterile field 

• drop technique
• mitten technique
• forcep technique